Climate Change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have also been identified as significant causes of recent climate change, often referred to as "global w ...more

New Releases Tagged "Climate Change"

Hafsa's Way
The Forest on the Edge of Time
I Am the Ghost Here
Wild Dark Shore
Vigil
A Guardian and a Thief
What We Can Know
Playground
Dream State
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Bewilderment
The Light Pirate
All the Water in the World
The Last Bear (The Last Bear, #1)
Saltcrop
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Termination Shock
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
The Ministry for the Future
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Flight Behavior
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Meet the Mermaids by Lois PetrenMermaids on a Mission to Save the Oceans by Janet BallettaKikiwi y los desperdicios en el fondo del mar by Tere Rodriguez-Nora
Environmental Children's Stories
3 books — 1 voter
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-WellsThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertSix Degrees by Mark LynasGator Country by Rebecca Renner
Consequences of Climate Change
118 books — 74 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 214 voters
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Best Environmental Books
1,083 books — 1,229 voters


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Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the garments of fertility for a century, pretending to greenery and growth as they mined glacial water from ten-thousand-year-old aquifers. They'd played dress-up-in-green and pretended it could last forever. They'd pumped up the Ice Age and spread it across the land, and for a while they'd turned their dry lands lush. Cotton, wheat, corn, soybeans -- vast green acreages, all because someone could get ...more
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